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Extract the text from a PDF

Updated 2026-10-11

Copy all the text out of a PDF into a plain .txt file, page by page. Free, private, nothing uploaded. A free Docmend tool that runs in your browser. The same PDF tools are in the Docmend Chrome extension.

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How to extract the text from a PDF

  1. Choose the PDF.
  2. Click Extract text.
  3. Read it on the page, or open the .txt file that downloads.

Common questions

Why is no text found?

Scanned PDFs are pictures of pages, so there is no text inside them to copy.

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